tempi our moscow time tonight a war of waste and a wages spell out israel's choices in a parliamentary election under way right now with voters expected to forge an even more hardline government at the ballot. but while israeli settlers flock to the polling booth to push where they think the country's borders should lie we hear about the bargain hunters spearheading the charge into occupied lands of other news half century of cooperation taken with a pinch of salt german and french leaders on a fifty years of the post-war alliance and made sharp political economic divides casting a shadow over the celebrations. and a complete information blackout american citizens are spied upon by their own

f.b.i. but the bureau refuses to explain who they're tracking why individuals are being targeted. very good evening if you just joined us this is r.t. international my name's kevin irwin here moscow tonight and at ten pm israel is reporting a record turnout with millions queuing at ballot boxes nationwide for the snap parliamentary election but few doubt who's going to win with predictions of an even more right wing and hard line government on the cards at the core of the vote three issues rocketing living costs iran's nuclear ambitions and the peace deadlock with the palestinians on compromising starts prime minister benjamin netanyahu is expected to not only hold on to but solidify sway over israel and strategic alliances polls in publications in general agree that it's the center left leaning parties. that are expected to be met loses more perspective now than from

a just but former editor in chief of the jerusalem post so big with us tonight jeff now you no fan of benny will let you know his policies i gather but if he wins a third term surely must be doing something right now. why i think any politician who wins three elections obviously has to get out of the political success the question though it's not just about winning elections it's what you do with the power granted and i think up to these elections if. elected for a third time what kind of government is he going to form form on with his natural hard right wing allies or will he look for a more centrist government bringing in people such as we live near and you're looking at from the center and to try and form a more national unity form of government for israel but the other thought is that revolutions around the region stretch from israel's neighbors to surely the time now is i don't compromising right study foot study and.

what i think it really is to want to study hunter the turn to be to be honest there's nobody else who can really talented missed an attorney for the role of prime minister not of the opposition parties has managed to put up accounted for who most israelis see as a viable alternative to mr netanyahu in the prime minister's office so i think it's very clear that mr not in the thing i will be prime minister he now has to choose what kind of path he wants to follow and i'm not so sure he wants to go always down the hard right wing road i think he might feel more comfortable having a center party or two in his coalition or if he has to make alliances really have much say in the u.s. president. well mistletoe is prime minister will be able to direct the government certainly will be able i think when he chooses his partners to be able to lay down conditions and i think what he wants to do is present a sort of meaningful face to the west and he's got a new second term presidents in the united states in the bomber who i think with

a neo knows he has to work closely with if he's going to achieve his major goal which of course is not allowing iran to gain nuclear weapons it looks like there's been a poor showing from the israeli left why weren't those blunders one of a better word capitalized on forget about the economic deficit cost of living another war with gaza. well i think the problem with this really left was they they never really recovered from actually to ship out the late labor party and then when mr barak split off to join with them the turning out in left labor a very very weak and splintered person who ultimately replaced him. is basically an office she was a journalistic she's only been in politics for five or so years and she hasn't really gone at the trust of the israeli public so most of that on the other side an easy road also don't forget as far as israelis are concerned the past few years have been fairly quiet on the terror front aside from the. gaza operation of a few months ago it has been very very quiet there's been no palestinian terror so

not from mr netanyahu has had a very easy ride if the opinion polls that we're hearing so far are correct if he does get in one form of coalition what could we expect them over the coming years. well i think if it does form a hard right coalition then first of all there's going to be no movement in terms of negotiations with the palestinians you know what has been over the past few years will continue and i think we'll see further israeli settlement building in the west and. the big question though is what's going to happen physically iran is promises they are going to wait to see if america's talks with the international community as talks led by america are bringing fruit with iran in stopping iran from reaching a nuclear threshold or a smith and they're going to cite no he can't trust the rest he can't trust the west and north his own preemptive strike that i think is the really big question and so far it's very very hard to know which direction most of the most the north

and we will take what it is the big question jeff what is your feeling on that will it be a green light to go in against around what do you think is going to happen it's very hard to say i think one has to notice that mr netanyahu has been very very cautious about using the israeli army and all israel's recent prime ministers if you compare him to i or sharon all preceded him this is something i was much more hesitant about using really of forces on the other hand he has been making great preparations for probably some talk of eleven billion shackles being spent or preparing the army for an attack on iran so he's making the moves getting all the positions in place as far as i'm concerned but so far he has shown a certain hesitancy to actually pull the trigger just parag four hundred chief of the jerusalem post thank you for being on r.t. pre-show ated thank you but what are most pressing and divisive issues of

this election has been settlements a scene that the writers campaigned on tirelessly but what my body's own perspective to the issue infiltrating the ranks of diehard settlers filmmaker nimrod came and known for his pride documentaries as this for us. my name is the more than israeli citizen living here among. you one housing crisis at all time high the thing is there is another new one in jerusalem but i can also live among our allies and i think i can get there much better deal with the wise over the. would like to see the flood to buy i'm here with some investors from england. we want to invest in this area because i'm hearing the property value might go up to one flat is one million shekels is fathers for that and they're building that this whole new area called zero eight and one begins after those heels despite a few haters in the un almost all these really critical parties support the

building and selling of charming flats on palestinian land the latest talks he won east of jerusalem hello i'm here to show a new client wants to buy property in this area is a big one investor understand is the only building currently built but if i can show him more. hills more outposts. and no one except occupation two state solution who cares as long as the property is cheap is a jew man leaving london i want to cash in on my jewishness and like be in touch with my roots. so it's all jewish or yeah yeah any known jewish parts because. not. many people say he is not being constructive in the peace process but look how many settlements it constructed i'm hoping. to build a new settlement. this is the future of israel i believe and i'm afraid that if i

buy that house and i get a document saying it's mine some day palestinians can scum and say no it's not yours because i keep listening to that in the. you see. there's a chess regime too there's just one thing and. it's funny how those small actions had like international meaning. the moving of stones like monumentally. it's like messing with international law. this is the most disputed area you never notice it just because people told us. but this is it is this a good place to build a new flat you think they'll build in this area like because my friends want to be like to buy something before we even construct and i was coming up and.

it says this is the fail stone being set for the new god willing or for you one facing the holy capital of i pay so much money for rent in london anyone in london and here anyone in the big city thing is cheaper and more comfortable it all starts here so beautiful all of us is ours. you you can look down and palestinians this is the new area being built up as if you want i just call this real estate it's called hideout three they said all the flats in this part of town and i say no to sixty three percent and then it will never be evacuated today selling more and more how come all the cleaners of the city and all the bills are you should be jewish labor. should. i want to see it going to the state agent to get to the all the legalities.

of. you selling your house painted chance and. my house and my house. well earlier mccauley going to talk to the man behind the film about his real estate to through occupied territories came a painted a very opportunistic picture of settlement mentality some of the people i talked to never going to. give up their. heavily.

into the settlement of the entire west bank and told me that jordan is also the kind of part of the do it just call the told me that if someone is going to a victim which they don't believe in but if people going to happen they're going to even make more money because the government will pay them compensation for the victims if you just go by if you can sell it to local jewish americans so did you actually employed by enter this. i mean i money with me and i didn't go all the way there but just got the best deal and why didn't i buy it if it was that if it's such a good deal you can make lots of money presumably yeah i mean. i am jewish actually not all the way. or thirty two parties are vying for the hundred twenty seats in the knesset already their leaders are talking coalitions and

division of power will of course keep you updated with news and analysis of the latest developments as our voting winds up close is it eight o'clock g.m.t. how will change with to run develop we'll settle to expunge just isolate can there be peace with. what's next in relations with america we'll let you know who survived his snuff election on january twenty second. israel decides. lots of glitz and gloss in berlin is german and french leaders celebrate fifty years of their country's alliance but hugs and handshakes may mask an alternative reality the two we get to agree on how to cure the eurozone debt contagion or overcome deep foreign policy divisions assessing whether there are more lows than highs in franco german relations right now is artie's peter all over. well it's certainly a meeting that's filled with pomp and circumstance but they as they celebrate the formalizing of the friendship between former foes but what we are seeing though is

that hoping that the celebration can paper over some of the divisions between europe's a couple of course france and germany the two major economies and the well the two biggest voices in europe really when it comes to how to tackle the eurozone crisis all around wants to see more spending to promote growth where is. stuck to her guns saying it's only through austerity that any kind of problems in the eurozone can be perhaps fixed now there's also rising concern here in germany over the state of the french economy the german people and german finance is looking elba shoulder thinking well we don't want to get caught up to cold if you'll recall and he sneezes it was a expected that the french economy went into recession at the end of twenty twelve hours also when it comes to matters of defense military might is germany and france not agreeing that friend certainly pursuing

a policy of intervention we've seen not in libya we're also seeing that right now in mali where with germany they have said that they were going to contribute any of their troops and it was backed up by. the finance minister here in germany and a key member of angler merkel's christian democrat party when he said that germany didn't want to be a major player in foreign policy said going on to say that well after hitler and auschwitz how could they be a major player so there is a difference there between how france views its place in the wider world how germany does based on well the two countries relative history so this meeting all smiles and handshakes however they are some deep underlying cracks in the relationship between europe's power couple. i spoke to mark thought he's a business professor and independent investment fund manager he told me he's never had any illusions about relations between paris and berlin. basically it's really some of the same have seen the trees i mean francis had

a policy of basically keeping germany down for since louis the fourteenth and twentieth century so i mean if you put this in a fright wider framework it doesn't surprise that. frictions and also little fissures and of course the economic strength of germany and the current weakness of france doesn't make it any easier. was needs to do some show for his domestic audience and the same is true for merkel merkel has to say we're being strict in some ways because as a result in germany almost against. hunger some speak for the so-called preservation of the euro which is not really the case i mean that's a different thing so the thing is that the overall vision for europe liking it started verging and so we will not see euro make really great progress towards a more unified continent and in time so. france has to be getting european support for its military efforts in mali it's at least now set to join britain in offering

assistance to the offensive following that deadly hostage crisis in neighboring algeria in which a number of europeans americans were killed were falling out of chile and sharable in the u.k. well we report on the so-called muslim patrol group posting their own vigilante videos online live coming up much coming up right after this break. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of a diagnosis of. over sixty two percent of those i diagnosed with this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about they were really good public health campaigns that people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be. when i was a child suffering. again

this is our tape now in the u.k. scotland has launched an investigation after videos appeared online showing a vigilante group calling themselves the muslim patrol in the inflammatory films use the scene telling people to throw away alcohol and then to make women cover

their faces as they were in a muslim area of london with the details hi sarah if i should submit to pieces that were in this video service such as a couple of minutes ago what else was there that's caused such a stir. what those videos that was uploaded called the truth about saturday night was filmed calling themselves and missed him for trial as he said it islamic a long secret that's what they call themselves a small number of people who were going up to members of the public in areas of london confronting them saying that they were implementing. and that this was a muslim area and they were demanding people throw away the alcohol they were insulting to women telling them to cover up this got uploaded on c.t. tens of thousands of people saw it the original video got really false the police investigation started but once again you know that goes around so it's still on you tube right now and again tens of thousands of hits so

a lot of concern here i think because obviously it's gone viral sake speak a lot of people are seeing this very threatening behavior from a small group of the certainly causing a lot of concern here that that's going to stir up tension it's interesting to look at. a couple of people that were approached they all complied as well but no i guess maybe out of fear at most but religious tensions have been on the rise in the u.k. how have the british public reacted to these developments than how is this video going. well it was very confusing i think for the people confronted one of the people in the video they said that this is the it's not a miss america is no she realized all along we think that this is a debate that really does playing pensions and causes a lot of control this i think the muslim community called c k really has come out thinking what this small done and to try and distance themselves from of the east london must say that it was designed to stoke up tensions so there's very much i

don't this is on distancing themselves from that type of behavior but certainly this is part of a why did debate in the area of london where the police think that this video. in east london is an area that see this argument come up a number of times for the past couple of years with fundamentalist meat in these areas making a lot of noise about one thing sure a lot implemented and it is a very touchy subject for a lot of people as we said very threatening behavior in those videos and as the muslim community here in the case being. very very trying to highlight is that this is a very small but of course as it has gone around the internet a lot of people seeing this and say this small great taking these threatening actions obviously having a much wider impact you know sort of. there are two sort of london. coming up jordan's king from this has changed to the weary crowds after two years of photos the country prepares of entry election to the us but monarchy saying it's

the beginning of reform but the powerful muslim brotherhood's boycotting the vote they say it's a gimmick. to quality raising time preserve the russian come over moscow vicious skirmishes this church activist targeted campaign is reporting on much. but considering backing from his combat action against islam is said mollie britain has already said it may . a boost its military assistance so far it's sent two warplanes in the conflict zone but move follows a deadly hostage crisis in neighboring algeria much publicized this last week which is no telly agent for france's invasion let's talk about this with lauren stave of sin dr laura say this is the face of middle east history at west chester university in the u.s. dr thank you for being with us so france by looks of it may be getting further support from european nations is the situation too much there for france to handle alone or is there more to it no i don't think it's too much for granted. why should

they i mean there's always political houris as well as financial costs that this sort of. intervention and so they're trying to spread that out live bringing in other nato force and do those nato forces really want to get involved well. depends upon who you're talking about in those governments in those populations while it's illegal alien now yeah might be only news that actually there is there's a feeling probably among the foreign policy people that if you don't intervene in this situation you're going to you know this thing's going to spread throughout all of west africa and there's a lot of economic investment in that area and so you want to stop it now the populations the general populations in terms of france and italy and elsewhere

will go along with this and it's typical if it's quick and if it's in a lot of casualties i think that's one of the reasons they're trying to force this i guess the flip side though to that argument the worry rather to that argument is that it could ramp up the tensions even further in mali because the islamists say if france goes in if france continues to do this they're going to get even even more heated and they going to fight back even stronger. well that's true but you know. the options here are very limited you know if you don't go in. there they're going to take over holly and they're going to spread to. niger. further in syria so you don't have a lot of option i mean you're going if you go you're going to bring back

a struggle with the people and that's truckloads of national and you can you know there are still a few well known to see it but what you'll fooled about it how long do you think from will be involved and they say they're only involved at the moment until the mullein army could sufficiently take over. what's being said on the front page in a way the p.r. side of it what you think really is going to happen only an army not taking over this period. it's a hard question. and there's a lot of political instability in the country. by one another for the last i guess the last five years or so it's not always not to be able to. open and. be able to push the. limits i was major. but that stretches the order where.

people who know the area and the area can wander about. and. laurens the other interesting thing that came up from this of course is that there's been reports of weapons from both the libyan rebels and government forces making it into mali an islamist land it seems to be a big issue it's interesting with have come from isn't it ironic to. wrapping it what happened is when the libyan government collapsed you didn't have again you don't have a centralized government in libya that given to introduce things from trees and so . large large amounts of weapons but want to have that you know are essentially were sold off by local or local commanders. and a lot of if. these these these people these as long as in my home

we've heard just fine with what we've heard libyan islam is somehow supporting those in mali in the. nation's help them to power how is that possible well it's possible because nobody controls libya. i mean there is a central government but it really doesn't control the country and so you've got tribal or ideological groups who are essentially you know staking out their own territory and do their own thing and there are you know large numbers as. high just silos and also there are i think there is a large number of just opportunists. some of them of criminal nature and some of them are just you know sort of carpet bagger types looking to make a killing or whatever and a lot of people otherwise wouldn't have him or him in there and they all come together i know also you've got mixed in there that. desire for

me so you've got large tribal towards autonomy these guys can make temporary alliances with islamicist and it's a mess. so i think the program think if you sold stocks nose dive or some professor of middle eastern history at the at westchester university the u.s. appreciate it. creaming off some tasty profits while millions struggle to feed themselves that wall street's under fire for forcing up food prices and stoking starvation by exploiting the farming futures market we're reporting on but at length online tonight and also not good to be told in japan pounds elderly are told no quote hurry up and die by the new finance minister he says old people cost too much to people live. it's about si dot com for more on the. free critique free. or charge three. three three.

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